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Tips on creating good passwords

Your password is your only line of defense from the outside world. Anyone who kows it, can guess it or can figure it out, has access to your entire user account. This includes reading email, deleting or modifying that users files, performing illegal activites and so on.

Beyond that risk, those clever enough to access your account will be one step closer to hacking deeper into the EE network. The easiest way for a hacker to gain access to a server is first to enter as a normal user and then try to gain access to higher levels of that server or other networked servers. By having all users maintain good passwords, the servers first line of defense is strengthened. In other words, having a good password not only safe guards your account but all other user accounts as well.

How to change your password on the EE servers

Using SSH, log into geek.nmt.eduu

Type "passwd"

Follow the prompts

What makes a bad password

Names

of yourself, including nicknames

of your spouse or significant other, of your parents, children, siblings, pets, or other family members